And let us not forget that Mayor Giuliani officiated at the
much-touted nuptials of Roberto and Angela not too long after
his less-than-triumphant Met debut!
Angelo from Boston
> On June 4, 2017 at 5:07 AM francis augustus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> > , but I don't recall his inviting any of the singers to City Hall.
>
>
> Actually, Mayor Giuliani was especially taken wth Dame Joan, and declared May 6, 1998, Dame John Sutherland Day in New York City, in tribute and thanks to “this magnificent artist”, honouring her at City Hall.
>
> “There is nothing quite like this incomparable Dame”
>
> NYC press release:
> http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/98a/pr203-98.html <http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/98a/pr203-98.html>
>
> John Augustus (Sydney)
>
>
>
>
> > On 3 Jun 2017, at 11:15 PM, donald kane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > When Rudolf Giuliani was mayor of New York, he loved to go to the opera,
> > and perhaps still does, but I don't recall his inviting any of the singers
> > to City Hall. I think La Guardia liked opera too, but when a newspaper
> > strike deprived
> > readers of Dick Tracy, he read them the daily comic strips on his city owned
> > radio station. President Roosevelt introduced one of his favorite singers
> > to
> > the King and Queen of England saying: "your Majesties, this is Kate Smith,
> > this America". That same couple's reigning daughter, when invited to a new
> > production of NOZZE DI FIGARO asked, "haven't we heard that already?" The
> > illustrious names you list after Reagan's name seem not to have modified
> > those "other faults" of his that you are so unable to forget.
> >
> > dtmk
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 7:02 AM, Wendell Eatherly <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 22:20:09 -0400, Jim Burdett <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> US Presidents used to have opera singers perform at events n the White
> >> House or on the
> >> Capitol grounds. I do not recall anything operatic in the last several
> >> administrations. I
> >> thought perhaps a Democratic administration would have some opera events
> >> but nothing to
> >> my recollection under Obama. Not from the blue blood GW Bush either. I
> >> did a search on
> >> Obama Opera and all I got was Oprah.
> >>>
> >> I found this list, "Classical Music and Musicians at the White House, By
> >> Presidential
> >> Administration" at the WFMT website. It just confirms what Mr. Burdett
> >> wrote. It looks like
> >> you have to go back to Clinton, who had Denyce Graves. Reagan, for all his
> >> other faults, had
> >> Beverly Sills, Frederica von Stade, Anna Moffo, Montserrat Caballe, Grace
> >> Bumbry, Jessye
> >> Norman, and Marilyn Horne, just limiting it to opera singers.
> >>
> >> https://tinyurl.com/y8saf3n8
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